Publications

Feitzinger AA, Le A, Thompson A, Haseeb M, Murugesan MK, Tang AM, Lott SE. (2022) Natural variation in the maternal and zygotic mRNA complements of the early embryo in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Genomics. 2022 Sep 8;23(1):641.

Omura, CS, Lott SE. (2021) Evolution of maternal and early zygotic transcript regulation across Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.28.466359v1.

Cartwright EL and Lott SE. (2020) Evolved differences in cis and trans regulation between the maternal and zygotic mRNA complements in the Drosophila embryo. Genetics. Nov;216(3):805-821.

Omura CS and Lott SE. (2020) The conserved regulatory basis of mRNA contributions to the early Drosophila embryo differs between the maternal and zygotic genomes. PLOS Genetics. Mar 30;16(3):e1008645.

Kalay G, Atallah J, Sierra NC, Tang AM, Crofton AE, Murugesan MK, Wykoff-Clary S, Lott SE. (2019) Evolution of Larval Segment Position across 12 Drosophila species. Evolution. Dec 30.

Atallah J, Lott SE. (2018) Evolution of maternal and zygotic mRNA complements in the early Drosophila embryo. PLOS Genetics 14(12):e1007838.

Crofton AE, Cartwright EL, Feitzinger AA, Lott SE. (2018) Effect of Larval Nutrition on Maternal mRNA Contribution to the Drosophila Egg. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. May 31;8(6):1933-1941.

Paris M, Villalta JE, Eisen MB, Lott SE. (2015) Sex Bias and Maternal Contribution to Gene Expression Divergence in Drosophila Blastoderm Embryos. PLOS Genetics 11(10):e1005592.

Lott SE, Villalta JE, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D, Eisen MB. (2014) Sex-specific embryonic gene expression in species with newly evolved sex chromosomes. PLOS Genetics 10(2): e1004159.

Paris M, Kaplan T, Li X.-Y, Villalta JE, Lott SE, Eisen MB (2013) Extensive divergence of transcription factor binding in Drosophila embryos with highly conserved gene expression. PLOS Genetics 9(9): e1003748.

Ali-Murthy Z, Lott SE, Eisen MB, Kornberg TB. (2013) An Essential Role for Zygotic Expression in the Pre-Cellular Drosophila Embryo. PLOS Genetics 9(4): e1003428.

Lott SE, Viallalta JE, Tonkin LA, Schroth GP, Luo S, Eisen MB. (2011) Non-canonical compensation of zygotic X transcription in early Drosophila melanogaster development revealed through single-embryo RNA-seq. PLOS Biology 9(2): e1000590.

Lott SE, Ludwig MZ, Kreitman M. (2010) Evolution and genetic analysis of early embryonic patterning in D. simulans and D. sechellia. Evolution. pdf

Miles CM, Lott SE, Luengo Hendriks CL, Ludwig MZ, Manu, Williams CL, Kreitman M. (2010) Artificial selection on egg size perturbs early pattern formation in Drosophila melanogaster.  Evolution. pdf

Lott S.E., Kreitman M, Palsson A, Alekseeva E, Ludwig MZ. (2007) Canalization of segmentation and its evolution in Drosophila. PNAS Jun 26;104(26):10926-31.